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A review by stacyculler
The Hive by Gill Hornby
2.0
The Hive is all about playground politics in the backstabbing world of the St Ambrose School parent fundraising committee. It is peopled by the punnily named Bea, who is the unrivaled Queen Bee of the hive, and all of her little worker bees: some who are in her inner circle, some who have been recently pushed out, and some who are just trying to escape. When a new headmaster comes along, seemingly too oblivious to grasp the existing social order, the Hive is disrupted.
It should be a good girl-fight of a book, but I just didn’t enjoy it very much. The overuse of slang made the book as difficult to understand in some places as if it was written in a completely foreign language. Bea is too pathetic and absent to be the girl-you-love-to-hate, and Heather is too pitiful to be the underdog that you root for. Although Georgia’s crunchy, satiated apathy was delightful, and Rachel’s “I Will Survive” evolution was cute, there were too many other characters to keep straight, as I couldn’t really distinguish them from one another.
Not my favorite.
It should be a good girl-fight of a book, but I just didn’t enjoy it very much. The overuse of slang made the book as difficult to understand in some places as if it was written in a completely foreign language. Bea is too pathetic and absent to be the girl-you-love-to-hate, and Heather is too pitiful to be the underdog that you root for. Although Georgia’s crunchy, satiated apathy was delightful, and Rachel’s “I Will Survive” evolution was cute, there were too many other characters to keep straight, as I couldn’t really distinguish them from one another.
Not my favorite.